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You wrote on reddit that an RSS feed is coming. If you're prioritizing that would be my first choice.

by brett 20y ago

mogston 20y ago
RSS was actually the first feature i looked for - so very glad to see it working. I use netvibes to scan around 50 feeds every morning and afternoon, so the availability of the feed is critical if i am to monitor what's posted. Thanks!
akkartik 20y ago
Counterpoint to all the calls for an RSS feed: Do others find reddit's front-page feed useful? Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO. I find myself using my browser to read reddit a lot more than my aggregator. For example, it's hard to capture the action on a comment thread, or to create filtered feeds by user. Here's one idea: http://features.reddit.com/info/xjvr/comments If user-specific feeds are infeasible (for server bandwidth or computation reasons) it seems RSS feeds are low-priority.
- bootload 20y ago
  '... Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO ...' How about RSS feeds for individual users comments? Who likes checking into 'roach motels'? I don't. The number of sites I've added content /., use.perl, perlmonks, reddit only a few allow you to extract *your* insight. '... RSS feeds are low-priority. ...' possibly true, but why should you have to go back to a site/page when you can just grab the data & use it as you like?
  - Arrington 18y ago
    This is why we can't have nice things.
- danw 20y ago
  I would quite like RSS feeds. Specifically I would like an RSS feed for individual users so that if I like all the links submited by a particular user I can follow them easily.
  - Arrington 18y ago
    This is why we can't have nice things.
  - xirium 18y ago
    As a stopgap measure, access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=author:danw http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... and then subscribe to the RSS feed.
- wbornor 20y ago
  I read reddit almost exclusively through their RSS feed. Its a critical function for any site... what site owner wouldn't want to broadcast to an Opt-In audience of passionate users?
  - Arrington 18y ago
    This is why we can't have nice things.
- Arrington 18y ago
  This is why we can't have nice things.
pg 20y ago
done
- etfb 18y ago
  Half-done, at best. Just getting a title is not much use: RSS feeds are supposed to save you time, and give you all the content where you want it (ie in your reader) not just give you a bunch of links that are no different than the HN "new" page. Or is there a third-party technology that I'm missing that will solve that flaw?
Arrington 18y ago
This is why we can't have nice things.

You wrote on reddit that an RSS feed is coming. If you're prioritizing that would be my first choice.

by brett 20y ago

You wrote on reddit that an RSS feed is coming. If you're prioritizing that would be my first choice.

RSS was actually the first feature i looked for - so very glad to see it working. I use netvibes to scan around 50 feeds every morning and afternoon, so the availability of the feed is critical if i am to monitor what's posted. Thanks!

akkartik 20y ago

Counterpoint to all the calls for an RSS feed: Do others find reddit's front-page feed useful? Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO. I find myself using my browser to read reddit a lot more than my aggregator. For example, it's hard to capture the action on a comment thread, or to create filtered feeds by user. Here's one idea: http://features.reddit.com/info/xjvr/comments If user-specific feeds are infeasible (for server bandwidth or computation reasons) it seems RSS feeds are low-priority.

bootload 20y ago
'... Nobody at a social news site has yet figured out how to do the RSS feed right, IMO ...' How about RSS feeds for individual users comments? Who likes checking into 'roach motels'? I don't. The number of sites I've added content /., use.perl, perlmonks, reddit only a few allow you to extract *your* insight. '... RSS feeds are low-priority. ...' possibly true, but why should you have to go back to a site/page when you can just grab the data & use it as you like?
- Arrington 18y ago
  This is why we can't have nice things.
danw 20y ago
I would quite like RSS feeds. Specifically I would like an RSS feed for individual users so that if I like all the links submited by a particular user I can follow them easily.
- Arrington 18y ago
  This is why we can't have nice things.
- xirium 18y ago
  As a stopgap measure, access http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?p=0&q=author:danw http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... and then subscribe to the RSS feed.
wbornor 20y ago
I read reddit almost exclusively through their RSS feed. Its a critical function for any site... what site owner wouldn't want to broadcast to an Opt-In audience of passionate users?
- Arrington 18y ago
  This is why we can't have nice things.
Arrington 18y ago
This is why we can't have nice things.

pg 20y ago

done

etfb 18y ago
Half-done, at best. Just getting a title is not much use: RSS feeds are supposed to save you time, and give you all the content where you want it (ie in your reader) not just give you a bunch of links that are no different than the HN "new" page. Or is there a third-party technology that I'm missing that will solve that flaw?

Arrington 18y ago

This is why we can't have nice things.